[Calgary4LIfe]

Originally Posted by FAN

I is probably 100% pure fan speculation, but the reputation of the Flames' owners being cheapskates as you alluded to is probably 100% fan speculation as well. Flames owners do NOT have a reputation of being cheapskates. Some posters (not naming you or Flash) feel that they are, and yes, fan speculation.


You're missing the point. No one is saying Flames ownership aren't willing to spend to the Cap. Both Flash Walken and I have tried getting this point to you. So you're really just arguing against yourself. Your argument is that the owners would not spend BEYOND the cap. My previous post proves not only proves they would. We are not arguing that they would spend to the cap - BEYOND the cap is what we are arguing about.


Well I believe the Flames were already without a 2nd and 3rd round pick and those type of deals are hard to make. If a deal was able to be worked out it was better for both the player and the team. I have no idea what draft picks they were missing that year, but there are other ways to trade excess salary. Package deals, minor prospect, etc. If the owners were indeed NOT willing to absorb salary as you state, they would have opted to make one of these trades rather than continue paying whatever portion of Nilson's contract $ were left.


This is the first time I heard that ownership "volunteered" Stajan. Like hey if you need to send Stajan down to the AHL that's okay? As for Kotalik, he was sent to the minors instead of being a healthy scratch because the team still wanted to make the playoffs and wanted the roster spot. Demoting a player on a one-way contract midseason making substantial money ($3M in this case) is usually out of necessity and doesn't show a willingness to absorb salary unless that player is replaced with similar salary (Kotalik was not). Owners did in fact volunteer Stajan and Hagman to be sent down - Feaster spoke of this in one of the STH sessions. Also, they sent Kotalik down why exactly? As far as I recall, there was no need of the roster spot, and Kotalik could have just continued being a healthy scratch. It was in an effort by Feaster in his fabled first attempt at getting out of cap jail and "taking advantage of another team in a trade" that needed to unload salary, or add an impact high-salaried player.

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